[Right_Wing_Madman]

Why Have Penitentiaries Anyway?

The Roman Empire never bothered with a prison system. The Apostle Paul spent pre-trial confinement in his own home with a Roman soldier posted outside. In Rome, the punishment for convicts was usually:

1. Pay a fine (most common)
2. Banishment outside the empire
3. Hard labor in a mine or farm
4. Execution

And of course, you sometimes had the option of attending gladiator school.

[Renfrew]

Banishment would be the easiest.

We should conquer some crap part of the world like Liberia.

Anyone convicted of a felony gets a one way ticket across the Atlantic.